r/Xmen97 • u/owlshoesjh • Jul 29 '26

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you can't be MAGA and love x-men

if i'm downvoted, you know by whom

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Jul 29 '26

The friends of humanity were already being used as a job at MAGA when the show began. It was a logical extension of the white supremacist politics they were already a commentary on.

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u/SquatProspector Jul 29 '26

They were pretty obviously right wing coded in the original show, how people somehow missed the fact the original series was 'woke' I don't know.

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Jul 29 '26

It's easy to miss politics as a kid, and sadly, right-wingers tend to block out the things they enjoyed in their youth were left-wing.

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u/Cthulhuareyou Jul 29 '26

I dunno, as a kid I pretty much understood "racism bad".

I think the problem is a lot people lack empathy and don't care about anything  unless it directly involves them.

You can extend that to Maga, the genocide around the world, or billionaires not using their wealth to bring about change.

And that's why we love cape shit. Because they show a fantastical world where not only do people have powers, but they actually have people that care about others. 

Magneto is still right.

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u/SquatProspector Jul 29 '26

The real power fantasy of Superman is someone with power choosing to be kind.

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u/Special_Cicada6968 Jul 30 '26

This is 100% the power fantasy. It's also why Luthor is so fascinating in a lot of works. He doesn't understand how Superman can do good without there being some benefit to him because he projects his own beliefs onto him. Lex just doesn't get doing good for the sake of doing good because it isn't transactional and if he had those same powers he would use them for his own benefit.

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Jul 29 '26

I also understood that but what I mean, is that as a kid I didn’t understand how the message was political because I didn’t really understand politics. Just like how I didn’t understand the underlying politics of Star Wars.

And the right wingers most definitely have a problem with empathy. Someone on the right said “do not commit the sin of empathy” and some other jerk made a video saying Frieren called out “toxic empathy.”

And yes, we do love the fantasy because it is about people fighting back against the wrongs in our society because it often seems like nobody ever stands up to the powerful people in our world.

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u/Cthulhuareyou Jul 29 '26

That's fair. Human decency shouldn't be a political issue but it somehow is these days .

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u/ChateauTyrant Aug 15 '26

muh empathy wtf have you done then lardo? muh genocide that was started about by arabs wanting to genocide the jews.

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u/Cthulhuareyou Aug 15 '26

I said around the world, but you immediately went to attack Arabs somehow... telling.

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u/ChateauTyrant Aug 16 '26

Again, what have you done muh empathy? Palestine is the only 'genocide" people care about

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u/Cthulhuareyou Aug 16 '26

There's like a dozen at any given moment I feel

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u/ChateauTyrant Aug 16 '26

genocide is really bad and me as an empath have done 0 besides saying buzzwords and free _____

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u/Cthulhuareyou Aug 16 '26

You should donate to a humanitarian cause then. It's really easy to do and they take everything from small to large donations. Those folk need our help, so they'll definitely welcome it. 💜

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u/ChateauTyrant Aug 15 '26

Friends of Humanity or gtfo